Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-07-21
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The Michigan normal school at Flint is
in financial straits.
Grand Rapids is talking about boule-
vald 100 feet wide.
Cedar Springs, Kent county, had SO, 900
fire on the 18th inst.
j. A. Campbell, a wealthy gentleman Of
Jackson, has become insane.
Work has commenced on the Toledo
Ann Arbor q Chicago railroad.
Gas has been struck at Hudson, and the
people are fairly wild with excitement.
&c. Adams of Battle Creek will make
an overland trip to Boston on his bicycle
The Hon. f. w. Hewitt died in Angus
ia, Kalamazoo county, recently, aged II.
Strong efforts are being made to secure
the establishment of glasswOrks at Vassar.
Ingham county will have grand reun-
ion of veterans the third week in August.
A number of East Saginaw capitalists
are engaged in the manufacture of fiat
cars.
Since January l, over 500 recruits have
been mustered into the G.. A. X. in this
state.
Van Buren, county is furnishing large
number of fine horses for the eastern
market.
The Flushing coal company has con-
tract to get out 5, 900 tons of coal as soon
as it can be done.
1t is very general complaint among
farmers that the English sparrows do great
damage to the wheat crop.
A Grand Rapids paper makes the start
ling announcement that there are sea-lions
in Pine Lake near CharlevoiX.
Sneak thieves enter the Chippewa house
in Sault Ste. Marie the other night and
stole 81, 900 worth of jewelry and watches.
John Butler, aged 81 years, for very
long time head carpenter at the state
university, died recently Of cancer of the
liver
Rumored that the Port Huron & North
western road is to be made narrow
guage and pass into the hands of the +. d
p. NJ.
The prospects of raising the SIS, 900
needed TO bring the Cincinnati, Jackson Il
Mackinaw railway to Jackson are not very
fiattering.
Sparks from a locomotive set fire to and
burned up ten tons of hay and a lot of
fence on II. q. Harris stock farm, adjoin-
ing Lapeer
George Hamilton, fell from the smoke
stack of the Cincinnati mill In Bay City
the other day, distance of 80 feet, and
was instantly killed.
Andrew Anderson, a Swede, aged %
years, who was married last fall, was
drowned in Elk river in Big Rapids, the
other morning while bathing.
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injured by falling elevator at the White
hall manufacturing company's works the
other day. She has since died.
Oscar b. Corset. at one time a well
known business man of kalamazoo. but
more recently a banker at DEVILS Lake,
Dakota, died at Evansville, Ind. a few
days ago.
Eddie Belgium of Pontiac, aged IL years,
was drowned while bathing in Terry lake,
in the northern part of that city. He was
in l5 feet of water about an hour after the
accident.
There is no truth TO the statement that
the Flint X Pere Marquette Is about TO
buy the Port Huron & Northwestern rail-
road, but Manager McMorran says the
road is for sale.
Thomas j. Wood, an early pioneer of
Saline, is dead. He was IS years old and
had amasSed snug fortune, which will
be disposed Of to a large family of heirs
who survive him.
A passenger train struck wagon near
Wasep. ST. Joseph county, the other
night. killing two horses and seriously, If
not fatally, injuring Albert and Levi
Strong Of Nottawa.
T..
Taylor's hardware store in Port Huron the
other night, and secured S63. This is the
third time in five years that Mr.. Taylor
has been visited by burglars.
Bert Williams, the l1-year old son of Law
yey c. L. Williams of Alpena, while in
swimming was taken with cramps and was
drowned in shallow water the other day
before he could be rescued by persons near
by.
A large force of men working on the
extension of the Toledo, Ann Arbor IL
Northern Michigan, near Mt. Pleasant,
the other morning struck to go to the
$500" causing bad feeling and one fight.
No arrests.
The effort to raise fund of $50, 600 to
end ow another professorship in Albion
college is gradually nearing success. DIR.
Smart and Mr.. Brockaway have secured
over $40, 900 and are now working up the
last $500
Jennie Stoddard, a young woman of
Lansing, whose trial for knocking down
Marshal Wilson with chair Is pending In
the Ingham county circuit court, was
drowned few days ago at South Bend.
Ind, while bathing.
WILDER French, who lives between Flint
and Flushing, has had five horses killed
by lightning on his farm in the past seven
years, and nearly every tree on the farm
has been struck. He fears. there is an
iron mine on his farm.
A Ludington salt and lumber manufac-
turer has contrived sawdust reservoir
that holds all the surplus sawdust made
during the day for consumption during the
night, thus enabling the company to make
salt continually at a great saving.
c. A. Spaulding & Co. IS dry goods store
in Coldwater was robbed of S1s5 about
noon on the 18th inst. One of the clerks
was busy at the rear of the store, and the
other clerk was kept busy by one of the
robbers while the other one worked the
safe.
There was large number of Bohemian
oat hote cases, set for trial on the Gratiot
county calendar, but the defendants all
agreed to make one test case, and in or
der to make sure shot of that one, they
took II from the jury and left II with the
Judge, and he still holds 1t.
East Saginaw mill employees are seeking
TO exclude in some manner the French
Canadians who come to this side every
winter to work i'm the woods to the serious
injury of American laborers. The method
by which they hope to accomplish this re-
| suit has not yet been divulged.
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